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Surely Carey has got to shoulder some of the blame for that drop? If he'd been trying to actually put Mitch off, he wouldn't have done anything differently.

Ponting is spot on regarding protocol around a ball change. In a game that can be decided by half an inch, having a 'yeah, that'll do' attitude towards something as critical as the ******* ball is just bizarre. And still ******* it up! Overall, the luck was probably both ways and the result...

There's no way Warner starts the Australian summer and doesn't end up getting an SCG farewell. It's as ridiculous as it is inevitable.

I can see the memorabilia already- a Jamie Cooper print of Warner in front of the Ladies Stand, walking out to bat, the crowd awash with pink. Titled 'Davey's Last Stand' Yours to own for only $12,000 or you can pay 104 weekly instalments of $115.38 Don't miss this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity!

In the last 2x series in England, Warner's record: 16 innings 236 runs 14.75 average To think that Head was dropped by the same management team for the 1st Test in India due to some 'horses for courses' policy.

Regardless of the result, I can't wait until Stuart 'I don't walk after edging to slip' Broad talks about spirit of the game in a post-match interview.

One of the major downsides of Bazball, especially when your gun bowling pair are collectively about Methuselah old.

Dropped catches, no balls and byes all scream of a team not quite sharp enough for a series of this magnitude. Makes you wonder if a one-off Test v Ireland and a bit of golf was the ideal preparation.

Yep, they can't dictate the IPL schedule, but they can absolutely affect their domestic games. Even crazier is that it does zero favours to their veteran bowling duo. This series may be their last chance to regain the Ashes.

He's graduated from the Stuart Broad School of Refined Knobbery with honours. Absolute ******* peanut.

A very average tournament for the Aussies so far. If England win tonight, as expected, Australia can't complain about being hard done by. The annoying thing is that in terms of format, it's just about the best I've seen. The group stage round robin feeding into the Super 12s, to then get a...

I know everyone is sick of the countless India v Pakistan replays, but that single match could be the one saving grace of this tournament when people look back on it as the years pass. There's still a lot of cricket to be played,so hopefully this ridiculous amount of rain starts to ease in the...

It was a brilliant game precisely because the ball had a more prominent role than you often see in this format. This also made Kohli's innings more impressive. He had to bide his time through some very good bowling, then pick his moment to go.

Maybe don't bowl a ball anywhere near a waist-high full-toss? Fair bit of scope for a legal delivery. He gave the umpire a decision to make.

This sounds great. Bradman as a batsman was without peer. Off field? He was a calculating campaigner at times, with emphasis on campaigner.

I heard a snippet of an interview on ABC radio about a book called 'The Unforgiven', about the West Indian players who joined the Rebel Tours of the 80s in apartheid South Africa. Sounds interesting.

Strange that the 3rd umpire has basically called that inconclusive but they lose a review?

Did he break any rules, so far as we know? The positive case, I mean, not Cummins.

Even discounting his previously poor career 50>100 conversion rate, his 2021 has been obscenely good.

Bradman Warne K Miller Lillee McGrath Ponting S Waugh Border Gilchrist Lindwall S Smith Morris Hayden Barnes M Johnson G Chappell Lyon Benaud

So Jimmy Anderson has 7 wickets @ 75.1 from 4 Gabba Tests. It's a blessing in disguise for them that he's missing!

Getting some higher-profile AFL games down there, including hosting a final. The push for a Tassie team got a lot more support than it had for years. Hosting an Ashes Test would be massive.

It'd be the height of irony to take the Test from Perth due to the knee-jerk, OTT reactions of its government and give it to Andrews' Victoria. Tassie Test please, to round off a hugely positive 12 months for professional sport in the Apple Isle.

Apologies, it's 'The Great Cricket Hijack'

Just started reading 'The Great Hijack', a behind-the-scenes look into the WSC origins. Crucially, it was written within a year of the actual events. Gotta love second-hand and op shops for finding stuff like this!

If you made an Ultimate Cricket XI to play any form of the game at the drop of a hat, I reckon he gets in.

It's all about team balance, isn't it? A batting order 1-6 all Pujaras and they might have a point. But he's surrounded by more aggressive batsmen, so he's fine. India's 4th innings chase was one of the better-crafted team innings I've seen for a long time, especially with Gill and Pujara...

Nothing against Cummins per se, but the ultimate decision to use DRS resting in the hands (signal) of a fired up fast bowler off his own bowling? Recipe for disaster, right there.

FWIW, it's a bit of a shame India will be so undermanned for this one, as a decider like this after a tight series could have been epic. When you look at the list of best XI players and a few fringe ones that have missed some or all of this series, it's impressive that they're still in it with a...

Funny how Warne has never held it against his mate AB for the same thing Waugh did to earn a decades-long grudge. This is amplified by the FACT that Steve Waugh believed in Warne enough to help revive his career at the 99 WC just months later.